Sweet Bonanza Demo & review

Sweet Bonanza is Pragmatic Play's 2019 candy slot, the original behind the later 1000, Xmas and POP editions. Its 6x5 grid pays anywhere for eight or more matching fruits or sweets, every win tumbles away, and in free spins rainbow bombs worth 2x to 100x multiply each tumble sequence. The demo's rules give an RTP of 96.49% to 96.6% under a low volatility badge, and the game's banner promises over 21,100x the bet. We played the Sweet Bonanza demo for 100 spins at $1 and bought the free spins once.

What is the Sweet Bonanza slot about?

The reels sit in a candy landscape of pink cotton-candy hills, iced cakes and wafer cones under a pale blue sky, inside a frame trimmed with a red and white candy stripe. The buy button and the double chance panel stand on the left of the grid, the spin button on the right.

Nine symbols share the 30 positions: four sweets (a red heart, a purple square, a green pentagon and a blue oval) and five fruits (apple, plum, watermelon, grapes and banana). A pink and white lollipop is the scatter, and the paytable has no wild.

Position does not matter. When the reels stop, the game counts each symbol across the whole screen, and 8 or 9, 10 or 11, or 12 and more of one kind pay.

At a $1 bet the red heart pays $10, $25 and $50 in those bands, the purple square $2.50, $10 and $25, and the banana, at the bottom, $0.25, $0.75 and $2. Several symbols can pay on one screen, and their wins are added.

Every win sets off a tumble. The winning symbols vanish, the rest drop, new ones fill the gaps, and the chain runs with no limit until nothing new pays. The whole sequence is credited once it stops.

The base game before our first spin: buy at $100, double chance off, $1 bet. FluxPlays demo test, 19 October 2026.

Sweet Bonanza bonus features

Lollipop scatters and 10 free spins

Four or more lollipops anywhere on the screen start 10 free spins and pay on their own: 3x the bet for four, 5x for five and 100x for six. Three or more during the round add 5 spins, and the round runs on its own special reels. The demo's paytable settles the scatter and heart values, where one review site prints lower ones.

Rainbow multiplier bombs

The bombs are the reason to want the round, and they appear only in free spins. Each one takes a random value of 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 8x, 10x, 12x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x or 100x and stays in place while the tumbles run.

When the sequence ends, all the bombs in view are added together and the sum multiplies that sequence's total, so a 6x and a 5x make 11x. The rules keep no running total, so a bomb only counts for the spin it lands on, and on a spin with no win it adds nothing.

Our last free spin while its tumbles were still running: a 6x bomb waits for the sequence to end. FluxPlays demo test, 19 October 2026.

The 100x buy and the double chance bet

At the standard setting, which the rules call bet multiplier 20x, you can buy the round for 100x the bet: $100 at $1, confirmed in a dialog that names the 10 free spins.

The double chance panel switches to bet multiplier 25x, so a $1 bet costs $1.25. That doubles the chance of a natural trigger by putting more scatters on the reels, and it removes the buy. We left it off, so our test says nothing about it.

RTP, maximum win and bets

The rules give a maximum RTP of 96.6% and a minimum of 96.49% without saying which way of playing gets which. Pragmatic Play's game page shows 96.48%, and two review sites also list lower versions of 95.45% to 95.50%, so check the rules where you play.

The rules pages state no maximum win; the intro screen and banner say over 21,100x the bet, a figure the review sites also put at 21,175x. Bets run from $0.20 to $300 in the rules, above the $100 top bet the review sites list.

The game carries a LOW VOLATILITY badge on its intro screen and rules page, while the sites we checked call it medium to high; we keep the game's own volatility label.

The demo's intro screen with its 100x bomb and the low volatility badge. FluxPlays demo test, 19 October 2026.

Our Sweet Bonanza demo test

We played 100 spins at $1 in one fresh session, with the double chance bet off. They returned $71.65 from 48 winning spins, so nearly every second spin paid, but 27 of those wins were under $1 and only two reached $5. The longest run without a win was six spins.

The return came in evenly: $17.20, $16.15, $19.35 and $18.95 across each quarter of 25 spins, with no single hit carrying the session. The best spin was spin 92 at $8.65; its settled board did not save, so the amount comes from the server log. Without it the other 99 spins returned $63.00. Spin 70's $6.45 was the next best.

Spin 70 of 100 at $1, settled: $6.45, our second-best base spin. FluxPlays demo test, 19 October 2026.

No base spin landed four scatters, so we bought the round for $100. It started slowly: $36.10 after six free spins and $82.30 going into the last. On that last spin a 6x and a 5x bomb landed in a winning sequence and took the round to $115.65, a little more than its price, with no retrigger.

The $100 buy at a $1 bet: $115.65 in 10 free spins. FluxPlays demo test, 19 October 2026.

How the $200.00 split:

• Base game, 100 spins at $1: $100.00 in, $71.65 back
• Free Spins buy at 100x: $100.00 in, $115.65 back

The session returned $187.30, and the balance went from $100,000.00 to $99,987.30, exactly as the server log shows. We never saw a natural trigger, a retrigger or the double chance bet in play. A hundred spins and one bought round cannot measure the RTP range or confirm the low label.

Is Sweet Bonanza worth trying?

The game is two halves. With no multipliers and no wild, the base game runs on the paytable alone, where 8 or 9 of a fruit pay well under the bet; our 48 wins looked like that. Free spins are where the bombs live, and since every bomb on screen is added when a winning sequence ends, one busy spin can multiply its tumbles many times over, as our last free spin did.

Because nothing carries over between spins, a round depends on bombs and wins meeting on the same spin. Starlight Princess, which we also tested, keeps a total multiplier for the whole round and lets its hearts land in the base game. Gates of Olympus 2500 puts orbs of up to 2,500x on base spins as well and sells four buys where Sweet Bonanza has one.